Except that in the Democratic primary race 8 years ago, Obama actually sounded like a sane candidate. Most candidates dropped out after Iowa. And from then on Obama was the front runner and never the underdog. But people didn't think of him as a frontrunner from some reason. Despite any possible Democratic candidate providing change over Dubya's administration, Obama was the only one pushing that message. Clinton was running on a campaign of "I'm the inevitable winner so you may as well vote for me now".
Most of the candidates other than Obama were longer term insiders than Obama, so that probably helped him out a lot. Probably a lot of people tired of both Bill Clinton and G.W. Bush years. Edwards in third place was the only other candidate to get any delegates, there was not a long drawn out multi-way race like we have this year with Republicans (and I swear, I can't remember a damn thing about Edwards campaign). Obama really was very similar to Rubio; first time senator yet treated like an outsider, young with appeal among younger voters, occasional breaches of established party doctrine, etc (I'd have expected Rubio to do much better if the Republican demographics skewed a bit younger).
As for Trump, he didn't even start as an underdog, everyone assumed he was just there because he was bored and needed something to do with his money. His incessant claims that Obama wasn't a citizen meant most politicians of all stripes thought he was a kook so he was ignored. But he never acted like an underdog, from the very start he campaigned as if he were the best and most popular candidate, he just will never shut up about his poll numbers. He actually acts more like a rabid dog than an under dog, always on the attack. And this is really confusing political pundits because he's doing everything wrong and it seems to be working.
It's not actually working though. He could sacrifice a goat on stage while wearing a black robe and he'd still be supported; the evangelicals backing him would claim that they dislike his satanist religious views but are glad to find someone who's willing to say what he thinks. (meanwhile Hillary is crying that she says what she thinks too but keeps getting blamed for her gaffes)
They both annoy me. I don't like the google apps myself and there are just as many of them at the AT&T stuff, just named differently so that they're not all grouped together alphabetically.
Things don't scale that easily. Even if the strength to pull were strong enough it would pull the Eiffel tower apart as well. But people like to scale up the "ants can carry 200 times their own weight" all the time even though the physics doesn't make sense.
I never created a youtube account and yet somehow I ended up with one forced on me.
The issue of logins is expanding. Too many sites now have common logins, and "log in with your Facebook account", and things like that. They're trying to remove the inconvenience of logging in, without realizing the disadvantages that come with it.
San Francisco is not representative of California. It's not even representative of the bay area. The north has always been richer on average than the south. The north had most of the industry at the time of the civil war. The south was dependent upon a slave labor pool in many of their industries. And the war started because of the constant fight over whether new states got to be free or slave states, the leaders of the confederacy made it clear in their speeches that the reason for succession was slavery.
True, and there are a lot of state and local governments who are actively trying to restrict people's right to vote. Pass a gun regulation and people are writing to congress in anger, but require a complicated ID check to vote and no one seems to care. The ballot should be more dangerous than the bullet.
I agree there. The Black Panther group should have been the perfect example of what a right to open carry should mean, to protect oneself against an abuse of power. Except that at the time the Black Panthers totally freaked out the establishment, conservative and liberal alike. Reagan, the graven idol of the right, was opposed to openly carrying guns because of this. The NRA helped write some of that gun control legislation.
But back then the NRA hadn't yet gone into full political advocacy mode. What would happen if something like the Black Panthers showed up again today? Open carry by people other than middle aged white men in Starbucks? I'm not sure how they'd react, probably have a split between the northern and southern factions.
Not many though, and definitely not older games where the publisher isn't in business. There's also a problem in that Linux is getting more and more complex all the time. I used to manually administer some but the latest stuff from Ubuntu is confusing and documentation is no help when there are problems. To make it easier to use you have to resort to the Windows route and accept all defaults and restrict the amount of customization you do.
I would. The only thing I really need Windows for is for some games. Sure there are games on Linux and they're getting better, but I play older games since I'm not the type who only plays the latest thing and then moves on forever. A lot of the older ones play on Linux but it's very difficult to get some to work right.
Though I am suspecting that soon enough I'll need to have a dual-boot system. Too bad that vmware and other options are so slow or I could just revert to a snapshot every week.
Ha, I ignore that Action Center. It's completely moronic. But I went and had a look just now. One message. Warning me that I'm set to not download and not install automatically. So I disabled messages from Windows Update, as I'm sure that's what Microsoft intended users to do.
Remember earlier when this happened and Microsoft came out and said it was all a mistake and the update was not intended to automatically install itself? Well, it seems they were lying.
Unfortunately, it is really hard to train the relatives that you can't trust anyone on the internet. They seem to think you said not to trust anyone except for a few people who seem trustworthy; like Microsoft, or Google, or Apple, or their political party, or the JCPenney's sale, or that email from their cousin who's a nice person and would never send them a virus to click on, or even their anti-malware program. Seriously, I don't know how many times I have to uninstall Chrome on my mother's computer because Avast anti-malware keeps installing it.
Hmm. I was thinking I'd upgrade to Windows 10 Pro while it is still free. Rather than be forced to pay lots of money for it in the future when they stop supporting 8.1. But if they can't even get their OS sorted out in this time then something's wrong.
The whole new idea they have that Windows 10 is the last edition ever and it'll just apply rolling updates every so often forever, is just broken. More broken than even Firefox.
The thirty day limit is for the simple revert in the case where Windows 10 was installed in-place instead of being a clean install. You can always do a clean reinstall after the thirty days.
We have a security system based on trust. And that trust has vanished. From the start the whole idea of updates automatically installing them, or installing themselves with only a mere click event to start it up seemed insecure to me. But everyone said I was paranoid because Microsoft wouldn't sabotage their own customers and we should be able to trust them. Though I was really more worried about third parties hijacking the update mechanism. Now we see that Microsoft's marketing department were the ones to hijack the update mechanism.
I really hate it when my paranoia turns out to not be delusional.
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Politicians need to learn that their party is only in power temporarily.
Except that in the Democratic primary race 8 years ago, Obama actually sounded like a sane candidate. Most candidates dropped out after Iowa. And from then on Obama was the front runner and never the underdog. But people didn't think of him as a frontrunner from some reason. Despite any possible Democratic candidate providing change over Dubya's administration, Obama was the only one pushing that message. Clinton was running on a campaign of "I'm the inevitable winner so you may as well vote for me now".
Most of the candidates other than Obama were longer term insiders than Obama, so that probably helped him out a lot. Probably a lot of people tired of both Bill Clinton and G.W. Bush years. Edwards in third place was the only other candidate to get any delegates, there was not a long drawn out multi-way race like we have this year with Republicans (and I swear, I can't remember a damn thing about Edwards campaign). Obama really was very similar to Rubio; first time senator yet treated like an outsider, young with appeal among younger voters, occasional breaches of established party doctrine, etc (I'd have expected Rubio to do much better if the Republican demographics skewed a bit younger).
As for Trump, he didn't even start as an underdog, everyone assumed he was just there because he was bored and needed something to do with his money. His incessant claims that Obama wasn't a citizen meant most politicians of all stripes thought he was a kook so he was ignored. But he never acted like an underdog, from the very start he campaigned as if he were the best and most popular candidate, he just will never shut up about his poll numbers. He actually acts more like a rabid dog than an under dog, always on the attack. And this is really confusing political pundits because he's doing everything wrong and it seems to be working.
"The internet thingie is down again, I'll vote for Trump so that he can fix it."
It's not actually working though. He could sacrifice a goat on stage while wearing a black robe and he'd still be supported; the evangelicals backing him would claim that they dislike his satanist religious views but are glad to find someone who's willing to say what he thinks. (meanwhile Hillary is crying that she says what she thinks too but keeps getting blamed for her gaffes)
You build the windows first, then build a house around them. At least that's what the marketing department wants me to do.
They both annoy me. I don't like the google apps myself and there are just as many of them at the AT&T stuff, just named differently so that they're not all grouped together alphabetically.
Emacs is lightweight today relative to what many people use as editors.
The Tower of Offal. Tour d'Abats. Visited by an average of 7 tourists a year.
Whoah, too much math. Slow down.
Things don't scale that easily. Even if the strength to pull were strong enough it would pull the Eiffel tower apart as well. But people like to scale up the "ants can carry 200 times their own weight" all the time even though the physics doesn't make sense.
I never created a youtube account and yet somehow I ended up with one forced on me.
The issue of logins is expanding. Too many sites now have common logins, and "log in with your Facebook account", and things like that. They're trying to remove the inconvenience of logging in, without realizing the disadvantages that come with it.
San Francisco is not representative of California. It's not even representative of the bay area. The north has always been richer on average than the south. The north had most of the industry at the time of the civil war. The south was dependent upon a slave labor pool in many of their industries. And the war started because of the constant fight over whether new states got to be free or slave states, the leaders of the confederacy made it clear in their speeches that the reason for succession was slavery.
True, and there are a lot of state and local governments who are actively trying to restrict people's right to vote. Pass a gun regulation and people are writing to congress in anger, but require a complicated ID check to vote and no one seems to care. The ballot should be more dangerous than the bullet.
I agree there. The Black Panther group should have been the perfect example of what a right to open carry should mean, to protect oneself against an abuse of power. Except that at the time the Black Panthers totally freaked out the establishment, conservative and liberal alike. Reagan, the graven idol of the right, was opposed to openly carrying guns because of this. The NRA helped write some of that gun control legislation.
But back then the NRA hadn't yet gone into full political advocacy mode. What would happen if something like the Black Panthers showed up again today? Open carry by people other than middle aged white men in Starbucks? I'm not sure how they'd react, probably have a split between the northern and southern factions.
Except that the supreme court has decided that regulations are allowable. The constitution is not a set of holy scriptures, it is a framework.
Not many though, and definitely not older games where the publisher isn't in business.
There's also a problem in that Linux is getting more and more complex all the time. I used to manually administer some but the latest stuff from Ubuntu is confusing and documentation is no help when there are problems. To make it easier to use you have to resort to the Windows route and accept all defaults and restrict the amount of customization you do.
I would. The only thing I really need Windows for is for some games. Sure there are games on Linux and they're getting better, but I play older games since I'm not the type who only plays the latest thing and then moves on forever. A lot of the older ones play on Linux but it's very difficult to get some to work right.
Though I am suspecting that soon enough I'll need to have a dual-boot system. Too bad that vmware and other options are so slow or I could just revert to a snapshot every week.
And for Windows 10 Home edition, the only option you have is "install now" or "install later". If you ignore it long enough it will install anyway.
I think that you can disable the Windows Update service from automatically starting.
Ha, I ignore that Action Center. It's completely moronic. But I went and had a look just now. One message. Warning me that I'm set to not download and not install automatically. So I disabled messages from Windows Update, as I'm sure that's what Microsoft intended users to do.
Remember earlier when this happened and Microsoft came out and said it was all a mistake and the update was not intended to automatically install itself? Well, it seems they were lying.
Unfortunately, it is really hard to train the relatives that you can't trust anyone on the internet. They seem to think you said not to trust anyone except for a few people who seem trustworthy; like Microsoft, or Google, or Apple, or their political party, or the JCPenney's sale, or that email from their cousin who's a nice person and would never send them a virus to click on, or even their anti-malware program. Seriously, I don't know how many times I have to uninstall Chrome on my mother's computer because Avast anti-malware keeps installing it.
Hmm. I was thinking I'd upgrade to Windows 10 Pro while it is still free. Rather than be forced to pay lots of money for it in the future when they stop supporting 8.1. But if they can't even get their OS sorted out in this time then something's wrong.
The whole new idea they have that Windows 10 is the last edition ever and it'll just apply rolling updates every so often forever, is just broken. More broken than even Firefox.
The thirty day limit is for the simple revert in the case where Windows 10 was installed in-place instead of being a clean install. You can always do a clean reinstall after the thirty days.
We have a security system based on trust. And that trust has vanished. From the start the whole idea of updates automatically installing them, or installing themselves with only a mere click event to start it up seemed insecure to me. But everyone said I was paranoid because Microsoft wouldn't sabotage their own customers and we should be able to trust them. Though I was really more worried about third parties hijacking the update mechanism. Now we see that Microsoft's marketing department were the ones to hijack the update mechanism.
I really hate it when my paranoia turns out to not be delusional.